{"id":1231,"date":"2007-05-18T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T04:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2009-05-02T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T07:02:39","slug":"1126-of-wolfowitz-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"[1226] Of Wolfowitz to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is only right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paul Wolfowitz is to quit as president of the World Bank following a bitter promotion row involving his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>After lengthy talks with the bank&#8217;s board, Mr Wolfowitz said he would quit the global lending body on 30 June.<\/p>\n<p>He had faced widespread calls for his resignation after being accused of a conflict of interest over a pay rise given to ex-bank employee Shaha Riza.<\/p>\n<p>The White House, which had backed Mr Wolfowitz, said President George W Bush reluctantly accepted his decision. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/6667975.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>World Bank head Wolfowitz to quit<\/em><\/a>. BBC May 18 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s \u2014 some of us <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1198\">are still waiting<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anwaribrahim.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anwar Ibrahim<\/a> to explain his involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is only right: Paul Wolfowitz is to quit as president of the World Bank following a bitter promotion row involving his girlfriend. After lengthy talks with the bank&#8217;s board, Mr Wolfowitz said he would quit the global lending body on 30 June. He had faced widespread calls for his resignation after being accused of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[690,691],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics-government","tag-paul-wolfowitz","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}